From Will at The Other News:
Huge explosions have rocked the main Greek Cypriot naval base at Zygi in the south of the divided island, killing at least 12 people and knocking out a power station.
The explosions at the Evangelos Florakis base reportedly occurred early on July 11 at a cache of weapons seized in 2009 from an Iranian ship that was en route to Syria.The blasts left dozens injured and devastated a nearby village.
Damage to the nearby Vassiliko power station, which supplies almost half of the electricity on Cyprus, triggered power outages across large swathes of the island.
The loss of electricity also prompted the closure of the Cyprus's desalination plants, which had allowed the gradual abandonment of summer water rationing over the past two years.
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Video footage (thanks to Alexander Munch):
2 comments:
Pasto,
I know, that this disaster is not like the Tsunami in Japan, but, from the info I managed to collect until now, the implications on our tiny neighboring nation are devastating !
How much destruction can one poor little island take?
My gut feeling keeps on telling me, that this ammo bunker was no hit by a Meteorite !...
http://goo.gl/6mtAw
Alex.
I knew it wasn't an Asteroid !
May be it was some kind of a Zeppelin with "Suxnet" in its Gyro?...
Imagine - 4K tons of explosives !
Stuffed & sealed in:- 30 foot x 200 containers, which were piled one on top of the other(X3)
in two parallel rows !"Fat Boy" from Hiroshima, was 10K!...
@Ant89 The chat among Cypriots is that this is no accident.
Local (Cyprus) radio presenters are speculating it may be terrorist related.
( The shit was on its way from Iran to Hezbollah Via Syria ! )
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